Broken Dreams (1-bit)

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Broken Dreams (1-bit)

By Brink on Mar 11, 2014 1:35 pm

This was intended to be an entry in the ZX Spectrum music compo at Forever 2014, but it looks like they only accept chiptunes so I decided to just upload it here instead. Made in Beepola with the Tritone beeper engine. Not recorded from real hardware

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This submission is licensed by author under CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)

Mar 24, 2014 8:53 am

freezedream

Lovely stuff and thanks for the description of how you put this tune together. The key change works really well.

Mar 23, 2014 5:07 pm

Scripterio

Best wall of text. Thank you

Mar 19, 2014 5:27 pm

Brink

I'm glad that you seem to enjoy it, Scripterio My way of songwriting is a combination of happy accidents and stealing stuff from other musicians. This is pretty much how I wrote this song:

1. Heard some stuff I wanted to copy/steal/whatever (the most obvious being track 4 from this - https://soundcloud.com/joemcalby/turok-rage-wars-gbc)

2. Decided upon a scale (D major)

3. Played around on my guitar and the computer until I found something that could work as a lead melody (0:07-0:19)

4. Added bass for 0:07-0:31 (if you think it sounds good - keep it, if not - change it)

5. Played around on my computer until I had a melody that would match the bass for 0:19-0:31. Got lazy and used some earlier patterns for 0:22-0:25 (but whatever, repition is used in music to establish hooks anyway)

6. For 0:56-1:09, I imported another melody I'd already written (see 3) and transposed it to match the key. While transposing I got the idea of keeping the original melody as a keychange at 1:09-1:14

7. Added more bass, structured the song

8. Added the chords/arpeggios (I use the notes from the bass lines as the root notes in the chords, and I get the chords from harmonizing the scale)

9. Added the intro

Keep in mind that this isn't the only way I write music. I'm also self taught, so I don't really know what I'm doing I hope this wall of text was of any use to you

Mar 18, 2014 11:59 pm

Scripterio

Still listening to your tune a week later.... I would love to know about your method. Do you start with a bass line and build up? Start with the lead and build down? Do i hear a key change?

Mar 13, 2014 7:15 pm

Brink

Wow! Thanks a lot Donovan! You just made MY evening much better with that comment!

Mar 13, 2014 5:23 pm

xxl

@Brink: PM :-)

Mar 12, 2014 9:59 pm

Donovan745

hey there, new here. just signed up using my xbox 360 just to tell you that you tune is epic. I'm a big fan of chip/8-bit type music. And this one isjust up my ally... you made my evening much better, thanks!